I sure don't miss the old hexagon menu, the new menu is up top and
usable before they waste a bunch of space with stock photos.
The
Our Team
page even links to the Linkedin profiles of
Andrea Schruijer
and
Meghan Duke.
While Allan Ricketts does have a Linkedin profile,
it's not very fleshed out and they don't link to it.

the names
of companies linked to something, such as number of jobs,
what they do, which are local and which are imports, etc.
For example, I think all three of the
"Value Added Agriculture & Food Processing"
companies, Sunset Farms, South Georgia Pecan, and CJB Industries,
are companies that began here.
They have a couple of
Testimonials
on another page; they could link to those, at least.
Or can they?
Do they have to go through their fancy marketing consultant
to do that, or do they know how to manage their own website?
And over here under
Leading Employers
they have company logos and a blurb on each for some of the same companies,
plus others such as Langdale, ADM, and Fresh Beginnings.
And of course what they really seem to think they're selling,
judging by what they talk about most in their meetings,
their business parks.
After all, their new tagline is the retro all-caps 19th century:

"BUILDING A GROUND BREAKING COMMUNITY."

There's a link to
valdostalowndesprospector.com,
which confusingly doesn't say that when you get there; it just has
the same Valdosta Lowndes Industrial Authority logo as the main site.

The
Target Industry Clusters
page lists
Advance[d] Manufacturing,
Value Added Agriculture & Food Processing,
Green Technology & Alternative Energy,
and
Warehousing & Distribution.
All good choices, although maybe one of
Augusta-Richmond County's advantages that let it be second in the
country in high tech job growth was picking a term they could spell.
It's good to see VLCIA is for agriculture, unlike
the Chamber.
The Industrial Authority's take is getting close to
Wiregrass Alley.
I wonder why "Alternative" energy
instead of renewable energy, and the one-line writeup says nothing
about solar or wind, and could still include biomass.
But at least it's on the list, and there's nothing
about wanting a private prison.

Anyway, I think the website is a big improvement,
although there's still room for further improvement.
Here's
the agenda for tonight's meeting,
changed only in the dates of this meeting, of the previous meeting minutes
(which are still not available to the public),
and of the financial statements.